Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
Author
Bland, Keith P.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2394
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.275866
bfdc24a8-b88c-42df-a177-4e25803425b4
1175-5326
275866
Samea DELICATA
Kaye
, 1922
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
,
67
, 991–998 [996–997], pl. I: fig. 22. Combination still valid (see Munroe 1995).
Holotype
, male, pinned: also
paratype
Ƥ, pinned.
Specimen data
:
Holotype
: No locality label. “
Type
” [Handwritten]. “
Type
| H.T.” [Round label with red border]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] with label with “
Type
” [Handwritten in red ink] glued to it. “
Samea delicata Kaye
” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label]. “Hileithia approprialis | Dyar male | Det. M.J.W.Cock 2002” [Printed].
Remarks:
This specimen collected in
Trinidad
by Sir N. Lamont is undoubtedly the
holotype
. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. I: fig. 22 (
Kaye 1922
,
Kaye & Lamont 1927
).
Kaye & Lamont (1927)
give the
type
locality as “Palmiste”.